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Footprints of the Red Men: Indian Geographical Names — Passage 94

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[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] a scaffolding or platform of any kind, and _ge,_ locative, the combination yielding "At or on a bridge." Bruyas wrote _Otserage,_ "A causeway," a way or road raised above the natural level of the ground, serving as a passage over wet or marshy grounds. Otsgarage is now applied to a noted cavern near the stream in the town of Cobel's Kill. Oneyagine, "called by the Indians _Oneyagine,_ and by the Christians Stone Kill," is the record name of a creek in Schohare County. J. B. N. Hewitt read it from _Onehya_ (_Onne'ja,_ Bruyas), "stone"; _Oneyagine,_ "At the broken stone," from which transferred to the stream. Kanendenra, "a hill called by the Indians Kanendenra, otherwise by the Christians Anthony's Nose"--"to a point on Mohawk River near a hill called by the Indians Kanandenra, and by the Christians Anthony's Nose"--"to a certain hill called Anthony's Nose, whose point comes into the said river"--"Kanendahhere, a hill on the south side of the Mohawk, by the Christians lately called Anthony's Nose"--now known as "The Noses" and applied to a range of hills that rises abruptly from the banks of the Mohawk just below Spraker's. The name is an abstract noun, possessing a specialized sense. The nose is the terminal peak of the Au Sable range. The rock formation is gneiss, covered by heavy masses of calciferous limestone containing garnets. "Anthony's Nose," probably so called from resemblance to Anthony's Nose on the Hudson.